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Best Cyber Security Course in Bangalore — Networkers Home 8-Month AI Security Programme

Networkers Home runs the best cyber security course in Bangalore — the world's first AI NOC+SOC analyst programme on real hardware. The 8-month placement programme bundles an information security foundation and an ethical hacking course with a new 3-month lab block built around 24Observe — Networkers Home's own AI-SOC platform — where 50 hardware-grounded incidents flow from real Palo Alto, FortiGate, Cisco ASA, Cisco IOS-XE routers and AnyConnect VPN devices through 24Observe's sensor, normalize, detect and AI-Analyst pipeline. Every incident ends with the student labeling a disposition. The programme covers enterprise networking on Cisco, Linux and Python security automation, multi-vendor firewall security (Cisco · Fortinet · Palo Alto), SOC and SIEM operations on Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel, ethical hacking and offensive security to CEH v13, AWS cloud security, and the unified AI NOC+SOC capstone including the AI-agent security wedge (prompt injection, runaway tool loops, MCP traffic). Graduates work as SOC analysts, AI SOC analysts, detection engineers, ethical hackers and cloud security engineers. Placement Guarantee* across 800+ pan-India hiring partners. 45,000+ engineers placed since 2007.

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Networkers Home Cyber Security Course — Programme Overview

Quick overview of the 8-month cyber security course in Bangalore at Networkers Home — curriculum, lab, paid internship and Placement Guarantee*.

Course at a glance

Cyber Security Course in Bangalore — Course Fact Sheet

The facts most enrolment enquiries about the Networkers Home cyber security course in Bangalore start with — duration, fee, EMI plan, next batches, mode, lab access, internship and placement support. Sections below cover the 32-week curriculum, lab infrastructure, certifications, trainers, paid internship, course videos, placement record, salary outcomes and frequently asked questions.

Duration
8 months + 4-month paid internship
Fee
₹1,20,000 incl. 18% GST
EMI
6 × ₹20,000 (zero-cost)
Next batches
15 June 2026 · 6 July 2026
Mode
Onsite HSR Layout · Online · Hybrid
Lab
24×7 real hardware via vpn.networkershome.com
Internship
4 months paid — inside founder products
Placement
Placement Guarantee* · 800+ hiring partners
The programme

8-Month Cyber Security & AI Security Program (2026 Edition)

01

Program Objective

This 8-month intensive Cyber Security Program is designed to transform beginners, networking engineers, system administrators and fresh graduates into job-ready Cyber Security Professionals.

Unlike traditional cyber security courses that focus only on theory and certification preparation, this program combines:

  • ·Enterprise Networking
  • ·Information Security Foundation
  • ·Linux Administration
  • ·Cloud Security
  • ·SOC Operations
  • ·Ethical Hacking Course (CEH v13)
  • ·AI Security
  • ·DevSecOps
  • ·Real-World Projects

Students build a complete GitHub portfolio containing practical projects used during interviews.

By the end of the program students can apply for:

  • ·SOC Analyst
  • ·Security Analyst
  • ·Cyber Security Engineer
  • ·Cloud Security Engineer
  • ·DevSecOps Engineer
  • ·Security Operations Engineer
  • ·SIEM Engineer
  • ·Threat Hunter
  • ·Junior Penetration Tester
  • ·AI Security Analyst
02

Month-Wise Learning Roadmap

Month Module Key Technologies Deliverables
Month 1 CCNA + Networking Fundamentals Cisco, TCP/IP, Routing, Switching Enterprise Network Lab
Month 2 Linux + Python Automation Ubuntu, Kali, Bash, Python Security Automation Scripts
Month 3 Firewall Security Cisco ASA, Fortinet, Palo Alto Multi-Firewall Deployment
Month 4 SOC Analyst & SIEM Splunk, ELK, Sentinel, MITRE SOC Dashboard Project
Month 5 Ethical Hacking Course (CEH v13) Kali, Burp, Metasploit, OWASP Pentest Report
Month 6 Cloud Security + 24Observe Foundations AWS, CloudTrail, 24Observe sensor :514, ECS normalize 5 AWS+CloudTrail incidents labeled in 24Observe
Month 7 AI NOC+SOC on Real Hardware Palo Alto · FortiGate · Cisco ASA · IOS · AnyConnect · 24Observe 22 hardware-grounded incidents + 1 KQL-lite correlation rule
Month 8 AI-Agent Security Wedge + Capstone Prompt injection, MCP, runaway loops, context graph, GitHub portfolio 6 AI-agent incidents + 5 custom detections + portfolio repo
Month 1

CCNA Enterprise Networking

Topics

  • · OSI Model
  • · TCP/IP
  • · IPv4
  • · IPv6
  • · VLSM
  • · Routing
  • · Switching
  • · VLAN
  • · STP
  • · OSPF
  • · EIGRP
  • · NAT
  • · ACL
  • · Wireless Security

Cisco Labs

  • · Configure Enterprise LAN
  • · Multi-VLAN Environment
  • · OSPF Routing
  • · Site-to-Site Network
  • · ACL Security Deployment
Project 1
Enterprise Branch Network Design

Students build a complete corporate network with:

  • · VLAN Segmentation
  • · Routing
  • · Internet Access
  • · Security Policies
Month 2

Linux & Python for Cyber Security

Linux

  • · Ubuntu Administration
  • · Kali Linux
  • · File Permissions
  • · Process Management
  • · SSH
  • · Cron
  • · Networking Tools
  • · Hardening Linux

Python

  • · Sockets
  • · API Development
  • · Log Parsing
  • · Threat Detection Scripts
  • · Automation

Projects

Project 2
Log Analyzer

Analyze:

  • · Apache Logs
  • · Firewall Logs
  • · SSH Logs
Project 3
Port Scanner

Build Nmap-like scanner using Python.

Project 4
Threat Intelligence Aggregator

Collect IOC feeds from:

  • · AbuseIPDB
  • · AlienVault
  • · VirusTotal APIs
Month 3

Firewall Security

Cisco Security

  • · ASA
  • · Firepower
  • · IPS
  • · VPN

Fortinet

  • · FortiGate
  • · FortiManager
  • · FortiAnalyzer

Palo Alto

  • · App-ID
  • · User-ID
  • · Panorama
  • · Threat Prevention

Projects

Project 5
Multi-Vendor Firewall Deployment

Deploy:

  • · Cisco
  • · Fortinet
  • · Palo Alto

in a simulated enterprise.

Project 6
VPN Infrastructure

Build secure:

  • · IPSec VPN
  • · SSL VPN
  • · Remote Access VPN
Month 4

SOC Analyst & SIEM Operations

Splunk

  • · SPL
  • · Correlation Searches
  • · Dashboards
  • · Alerting

Microsoft Sentinel

  • · KQL
  • · Analytics Rules
  • · Workbooks

Monitoring Stack

  • · Grafana — Dashboarding
  • · Prometheus — Metrics Collection
  • · Loki — Log Aggregation

MITRE ATT&CK

  • · Detection Engineering

Projects

Project 7
SOC Dashboard

Build SOC dashboard using:

  • · Grafana
  • · Prometheus
  • · Loki
Project 8
Threat Detection Platform

Detect:

  • · Brute Force
  • · Malware
  • · Lateral Movement
Project 9
SIEM Correlation Engine

Create custom correlation rules using Splunk.

Month 5

Ethical Hacking & CEH

CEH v13 Coverage

  • · Reconnaissance
  • · Enumeration
  • · Exploitation
  • · Privilege Escalation
  • · Web Security
  • · Wireless Security

Tools

  • · Kali Linux
  • · Burp Suite
  • · Metasploit
  • · Nessus
  • · Nmap

OWASP Top 10

  • · SQL Injection
  • · XSS
  • · CSRF
  • · SSRF
  • · IDOR

Projects

Project 10
Web Application Pentest

Perform complete assessment and produce professional report.

Project 11
Active Directory Attack Lab
  • · Kerberoasting
  • · Pass-the-Hash
  • · BloodHound
Project 12
Red Team Exercise

Attack simulated enterprise environment.

Month 6

Cloud Security + 24Observe Foundations

AWS Core Services

  • · EC2
  • · VPC
  • · IAM
  • · S3
  • · CloudTrail
  • · CloudWatch

AWS Security Services

  • · GuardDuty
  • · Security Hub
  • · AWS Config
  • · WAF
  • · Shield
  • · KMS

24Observe Foundations

  • · Sensor :514 syslog
  • · Universal Webhook Ingest
  • · ECS normalize · logs_v2

Projects (each ends with the student labeling a disposition)

Project 13
AWS Misconfiguration Incident in 24Observe

Trigger an open-S3 / over-permissive-IAM event in a real AWS account, ship via CloudTrail to 24Observe, triage in the AI Analyst panel, submit disposition.

Technologies: AWS Config · CloudTrail · 24Observe

Project 14
IAM Privilege-Escalation Sequence

CloudTrail events surface an attacker-chained role assumption — walk the operational context graph from the suspicious identity to the resources touched, build the case.

Technologies: CloudTrail · 24Observe Context Graph · IAM Logs

Project 15
CloudTrail Threat Detection with GeoIP + Threat Intel

Use 24Observe's ingest-time GeoIP, ASN and threat-intel enrichment to identify CloudTrail activity from foreign or known-bad sources, label confidence + severity.

Technologies: CloudTrail · 24Observe Threat-Intel Pack

Project 16
Container + Workload Telemetry into 24Observe

Docker daemons via syslog log-driver, systemd-journald hosts via the 24Observe collector — fingerprint malicious containers from log patterns, dispose two incidents.

Technologies: Docker · systemd · 24Observe Collector

Project 17
Cloud Data Exfiltration — Byte-Volume Anomaly

Identify suspicious S3/egress patterns by sustained byte-volume deviation from baseline, then trace cross-account propagation with the 24Observe context graph.

Technologies: VPC Flow Logs · 24Observe Anomaly Detection

Month 7

AI NOC+SOC on Real Hardware — World-First Lab Block

The only Cybersecurity course in India where every alert students triage comes from a real Palo Alto, FortiGate, Cisco ASA, Cisco IOS or AnyConnect device — flowing through 24Observe, Networkers Home's own AI-SOC product. 22 hardware-grounded incidents this month. Every disposition labels real data.

Perimeter / Firewall (Palo · Forti · ASA)

  • · Mgmt-plane brute-force [T1110]
  • · External scan + ACL-deny burst
  • · Firewall policy change · allow-any rule
  • · GeoIP + threat-intel hits
  • · Tor / C2 / botnet egress

VPN / Remote Access · Cisco IOS Device Security

  • · VPN brute-force · impossible travel
  • · Brute → success account takeover
  • · Router vty / SSH brute-force
  • · Config-change · privilege escalation
  • · Port-security · MAC flood · rogue routing

Web Attacks via NGFW · Tuning Heuristics

  • · SQLi · path traversal · scanners
  • · Phishing URL · malware download blocks
  • · DNS tunnel · cryptominer · volume exfil

Projects (every project ends with a labeled disposition)

Project 18
Firewall Mgmt-Plane Brute Force Across All Three Vendors

Trigger SSH brute on Palo Alto, FortiGate and ASA. Tune the detection heuristic to each vendor's log shape. Label severity + MITRE technique on each incident.

Technologies: PAN-OS · FortiOS · ASA · 24Observe Detections Pack

Project 19
External Scan + Inbound ACL-Deny Burst

Cardinality correlation (1 src → many ports) + ASA %ASA-4-106023 threshold with GeoIP. Dispose the foreign-source incidents and document the IOC pivot.

Technologies: NGFW threat-detection logs · 24Observe Correlation Engine

Project 20
VPN Account-Takeover Sequence on AnyConnect / SSL-VPN

Many-fail-then-success pattern, impossible travel, after-hours privileged login. Build the sequence detection and label the account-takeover incident as confirmed-true-positive with attribution notes.

Technologies: AnyConnect · GlobalProtect · 24Observe Sequence Correlation

Project 21
Cisco IOS Device Security Lab — 6 Incidents

%SYS-5-CONFIG_I config change, %SEC_LOGIN-4-LOGIN_FAILED brute force, %SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP recon, port-security violation, MAC flooding, rogue OSPF/BGP. Six dispositions in one project.

Technologies: Cisco IOS-XE syslog · Catalyst 9000 · 24Observe ECS Mapping

Project 22
Web Attacks Through the NGFW

SQLi + path-traversal IPS hits, Nikto/dirb scanner traffic, WildFire AV verdict on a blocked malware download, phishing URL filter, cryptominer DNS, DNS tunnel exfil and large-volume egress anomaly.

Technologies: Palo Alto Threat Logs · FortiGate UTM · 24Observe Web-Attack Pack

Project 23
TFTP/SCP Config Exfiltration + Rogue DHCP

Running-config copied off a router via TFTP, plus a rogue DHCP server triggering snooping drops — L2-attack pack + exfil pack composed.

Technologies: Cisco IOS · DHCP Snooping · 24Observe Exfil Pack

Project 24
Custom KQL-Lite Detection — Tune to Your Vendor

Pick one starting heuristic from any of the prior projects, write a custom detection in 24Observe's one-line KQL-lite, test against 7 days of recorded traffic, promote to the active pack. This is the artefact L2 hiring managers ask for in technical interviews.

Technologies: 24Observe KQL-Lite · Detection Engineering

Month 8

AI-Agent Security Wedge + Unified NOC+SOC Capstone

This is the category incumbents do not own. Prompt-injection-to-firewall-egress, MCP tool-result exfil, runaway-agent port scans — fused detections across the AI-agent telemetry plane and the perimeter plane. Students leave with a GitHub portfolio that opens senior interview doors.

AI-Agent Security (Group F — 5 incidents)

  • · Prompt injection → firewall egress
  • · Runaway tool-loop → port scan
  • · Agent token / cost blowout
  • · MCP tool-result injection → secret exfil
  • · Sensitive-tool credential read → egress

Multi-Stage Kill Chains + NOC Half

  • · Scan → exploit → C2 egress
  • · Brute → VPN → lateral (3 devices)
  • · Reverse shell + C2 correlation
  • · Phishing block → impossible-travel Case
  • · Link-down · HA flip · sensor-offline NOC
  • · On-call escalation + status page

Capstone Portfolio (the artefact recruiters open)

  • · 5 custom KQL-lite detections
  • · 50 labeled dispositions
  • · 1 correlation rule authored
  • · 3 screen-walk videos
  • · GitHub portfolio repo
  • · Resume + LinkedIn + mock interviews
Capstone

Final Capstone Project

Students ship a complete Unified AI NOC+SOC capability — Splunk + Grafana for visualisation, 24Observe (Networkers Home's own AI-SOC platform) as the detection engine, and the full multi-vendor hardware estate plumbed in. 50 labeled dispositions. 5 authored detections. One GitHub portfolio repo recruiters open.

Components

  • · 24Observe AI-SOC platform
  • · Splunk + Grafana
  • · Palo Alto · FortiGate · ASA
  • · Cisco IOS-XE · Catalyst 9000
  • · AnyConnect / GlobalProtect VPN
  • · AWS CloudTrail integration
  • · Sensor :514 syslog receiver
  • · Universal Webhook Ingest
  • · Operational Context Graph
  • · KQL-Lite Custom Detections
  • · AI Agent Security Pack (MCP)
Lab infrastructure

Lab Infrastructure — What Each Month of the Program Runs On

The Networkers Home Bangalore lab is provisioned month by month to back the curriculum and the 24 graded projects students ship across the eight-month program. Every appliance below is production-grade hardware, every cloud account is a real provisioned tenant and every AI testbed runs the actual model infrastructure used in the project briefs — students access the entire stack 24×7 from campus or remotely through vpn.networkershome.com.

Month 1

Cisco enterprise networking lab

Production Cisco IOS-XE routers and Catalyst 9000 switches running OSPF, EIGRP, 802.1Q VLAN and STP topologies. Backs the CCNA Enterprise Networking module and the Enterprise Branch Network Design project (VLAN segmentation, routing, ACL security policy).

Month 2

Linux + Python development environment

Ubuntu Server and Kali Linux workstations with the full Python security tooling — sockets, log parsing, automation, threat detection scripting. Apache, firewall and SSH log corpora preloaded for the Log Analyzer project. Backs Projects 2-4 (Log Analyzer, Port Scanner, Threat Intelligence Aggregator).

Month 3

Multi-vendor firewall stack

Cisco ASA + Firepower Threat Defence, Fortinet FortiGate 80F appliances (FortiOS 7.4 with FortiAnalyzer + FortiManager) and Palo Alto PA-440 hardware + PAN-OS 11 VM-Series — the three platforms students deploy side-by-side in the Multi-Vendor Firewall Deployment project and the VPN Infrastructure project.

Month 4

SOC & SIEM stack

Splunk (SPL, correlation searches, dashboards, alerting), Microsoft Sentinel (KQL, analytics rules, workbooks) and the Grafana + Prometheus + Loki monitoring stack mapped against MITRE ATT&CK. Backs Projects 7-9 (SOC Dashboard, Threat Detection Platform, SIEM Correlation Engine).

Month 5

Ethical hacking and Red Team lab

Kali Linux full toolkit, Burp Suite Professional, Metasploit framework, Nessus, Nmap, and an Active Directory attack range for Kerberoasting, Pass-the-Hash and BloodHound exercises. Backs Projects 10-12 (Web Application Pentest, AD Attack Lab, Red Team Exercise).

Month 6

AWS production accounts piped into 24Observe

Real AWS accounts provisioned per student for IAM, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, AWS Config, WAF, KMS and VPC Flow Log labs — with CloudTrail and security-service events shipped via the documented integration into 24Observe (Networkers Home's own AI-SOC platform) for normalize-detect-triage-label. Backs Projects 13-17 — five cloud-anchored incidents that students dispose through the 24Observe AI Analyst workflow, generating the first portfolio entries.

Month 7

Multi-vendor SOC lab on real hardware, plumbed to 24Observe

Palo Alto PA-440, FortiGate 80F (FortiOS 7.4), Cisco ASA + Firepower, Cisco IOS-XE routers and Catalyst 9000 switches, AnyConnect / GlobalProtect / SSL-VPN concentrators — every device pointed at a 24Observe Sensor :514 syslog receiver with universal-webhook-ingest AI-authored CEF/JSON mappings normalising every log to ECS in logs_v2. The same 59 detections, correlation engine, IOC/GeoIP enrichment, AI Analyst and operational context graph apply across every vendor. Backs Projects 18-24 — 22 hardware-grounded incident labs spanning perimeter, VPN, IOS device security and web attacks.

Month 8

AI-Agent attack range + 24Observe operational context graph

Vulnerable LLM agents with MCP tool servers, an isolated egress lane through the same Palo Alto / FortiGate / ASA stack, and the 24Observe AI Agent Security pack (prompt injection, runaway tool loops, sensitive-tool calls, MCP traffic, GenAI cost telemetry) layered on top. Drives the Final Capstone — five custom KQL-lite detections, six fused agent-plus-firewall incidents, a NOC-half on-call scenario, and a GitHub portfolio repo (disposition notes, correlation rules, screen-walks of three favourite incidents).

All months

24×7 remote access via vpn.networkershome.com

Every appliance and cloud account above is accessible from anywhere with an internet connection. Approximately 40% of every Bangalore batch attends online from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities and from the Gulf with lab parity to onsite students. The institute does not use Packet Tracer, GNS3 or EVE-NG for any graded exercise — every assessed configuration runs on real infrastructure.

Certifications

Certifications Covered — Vendor & Vendor-Neutral

The course content maps to ten vendor and vendor-neutral certifications spanning networking, firewall, SIEM, ethical hacking, cloud security and Kubernetes security. Students complete the technical depth required to attempt any certification in the list — vouchers are booked separately at vendor-current pricing. Exam guidance, mock-test access via NHPREP.com and exam-day strategy sessions are included in the program. The certifications below are listed in the order students complete their corresponding modules across the eight-month roadmap.

Cisco CCNA (200-301)

Month 1 — CCNA Enterprise Networking

Cisco Certified Network Associate — the foundational networking certification that maps directly to the Month 1 module. Required baseline for most Bangalore enterprise networking, SOC and entry-level security roles.

CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701)

Months 1-4 — vendor-neutral baseline

Vendor-neutral baseline security certification covering networking, threat management, identity, cryptography and incident response. Course coverage spans the networking foundation, Linux/Python, firewall and SOC modules.

Palo Alto PCNSE

Month 3 — Firewall Security

Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer — the cert most heavily weighted by Bangalore enterprises and BFSI GCCs running Palo Alto firewalls. Mapped to the Palo Alto track inside the Firewall Security module.

Fortinet NSE 4 Network Security

Month 3 — Firewall Security

Fortinet Network Security Professional (NSE 4) — covered end-to-end in the FortiGate portion of the Firewall Security module, including FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer integration.

Splunk Core Certified User

Month 4 — SOC Analyst & SIEM

Splunk's foundational SIEM certification. The course covers SPL queries, correlation searches, dashboards and alerting — the full Splunk Core blueprint as part of the SOC Analyst & SIEM module.

Microsoft SC-200 Security Operations Analyst

Month 4 — SOC Analyst & SIEM

Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Associate — covers Microsoft Sentinel KQL, analytics rules, workbooks and playbook automation. Mapped to the Sentinel portion of the SOC module.

Cisco CyberOps Associate (200-201)

Month 4 — SOC fundamentals

Cisco's SOC analyst foundational certification covering log analysis, incident response and MITRE ATT&CK detection coverage. Aligned to the SOC Analyst & SIEM Operations module.

EC-Council CEH v13

Month 5 — Ethical Hacking

Industry-standard ethical hacking certification. The CEH v13 blueprint — reconnaissance, enumeration, exploitation, privilege escalation, web and wireless security — is covered end-to-end with hands-on Kali Linux, Burp Suite, Metasploit and Nmap labs.

AWS Certified Security — Specialty (SCS-C02)

Month 6 — AWS Cloud Security

AWS SCS-C02 blueprint coverage with hands-on labs in real AWS production accounts (IAM, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, WAF, KMS). The cert most weighted by Bangalore product-company and GCC cloud security hiring teams.

24Observe AI-SOC Practitioner (NH-issued)

Months 6-8 — 24Observe lab block

Networkers Home-issued practitioner badge awarded on completion of all 50 hands-on labs across the 24Observe AI NOC+SOC block. Verifies the student has triaged 50 real-hardware incidents, authored 5 custom KQL-lite detections and shipped a GitHub portfolio repo — the artefact set L2 hiring managers explicitly ask for in technical interviews.

Trainers

Trainers — The Networkers Home Senior Faculty

The Networkers Home cyber security course in Bangalore is delivered by a senior trainer team holding active credentials across the major vendor stacks taught in the programme — Palo Alto PCNSE, Fortinet NSE 4 and NSE 7, Check Point CCSA and CCSE, Cisco CCNP Security and CCIE Security, OSCP for offensive security, AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS-C02), Microsoft Azure AZ-500 and Splunk Core Certified Power User. Combined practitioner experience across the team exceeds 75 years. All trainers are actively practising security engineers — not full-time instructors who left field work years ago — and bring current vendor-specific knowledge to the classroom each week.

The trainer team is organised across three pods aligned to the course modules. The firewall pod covers Cisco ASA + Firepower, Palo Alto PAN-OS 11, Fortinet FortiGate 7.4 and Check Point R82. The cloud pod covers AWS Security (SCS-C02 blueprint) and Azure Security (AZ-500 blueprint with Sentinel and Defender for Cloud). The offensive and SOC pod covers ethical hacking (CEH v13 blueprint), Kali, Burp Suite, Metasploit, Splunk SPL, Sentinel KQL and MITRE ATT&CK detection engineering. A dedicated lab coordinator team handles 24×7 lab access, rack-level troubleshooting and online-batch hardware proxying through vpn.networkershome.com.

Networkers Home was founded in 2007 and has operated the Bangalore cyber security and networking training programme continuously for 19 years. The institute has placed 45,000+ engineers across the Indian cyber security and networking industry over that operating record, including alumni at Cisco India, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Fortinet, Akamai, Barracuda, Flipkart, Razorpay, Wipro, Infosys, TCS, HCL and the major BFSI global capability centres operating from Bangalore. The senior trainer team and the placement coordinator team are the two operating pillars of the Placement Guarantee* programme described in Section 10.

Senior trainer credentials at a glance

Firewall stack

Palo Alto PCNSE · Fortinet NSE 4 + NSE 7 · Check Point CCSA + CCSE · Cisco CCNP Security · Cisco CCIE Security

Cloud security

AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS-C02) · Microsoft Azure AZ-500 · Microsoft Sentinel KQL · AWS Solutions Architect Professional

Offensive & SOC

OSCP · CEH v13 · Splunk Core Certified Power User · Cisco CyberOps Associate · (ISC)² CISSP

Months 4-8

4-Month Paid Internship Inside Founder Products

The four-month paid internship is the single structural feature that most differentiates the Networkers Home cyber security course in Bangalore from other Bangalore cyber security institutes. From the start of month four, every enrolled student joins one of four founder-owned security product companies as a paid intern. The work is real customer engagement — security audits against live merchant integrations, SIEM rule tuning against real anonymised customer telemetry, vulnerability assessments of production deployments, firewall hardening for client environments — not simulated exercises against fabricated targets. The internship runs in parallel with the back half of the curriculum so students consolidate classroom learning against immediate field application.

A monthly stipend offsets part of the ₹1,20,000 course fee. At graduation, Networkers Home's registered IT services entity issues a Verified Experience Letter documenting four months of real cyber security work experience — the document that recruiters in Bangalore use to move a graduate from the fresher pile into the experienced-engineer pile during the resume screen. This is the structural mechanism that breaks the chicken-and-egg loop most cybersec freshers face: employers want experience, students cannot get experience without employment.

Product 1

QSecure — Post-Quantum Payments Security

QSecure is the founder's post-quantum payments security product. Interns work on PCI-DSS compliance audits for real merchant accounts, tokenisation engineering, HSM (Hardware Security Module) integration, payment gateway security review and post-quantum cryptography R&D against the NIST PQC standards (Kyber, Dilithium, Falcon).

Product 2

BrowserFog — Browser Security & Isolation

BrowserFog provides browser-level security isolation. Interns work on endpoint hardening, browser isolation architecture, phishing detection engineering, DLP (Data Loss Prevention) integration, and run live phishing-simulation campaigns against opt-in client populations to validate detection logic.

Product 3

QSecNiti — Security Training Platform

QSecNiti is the founder's security training platform. Interns work on lab build-out, vulnerable virtual-machine authoring, CTF (capture-the-flag) challenge engineering and platform-level security hardening. Interns who work on QSecNiti effectively write the labs that future Networkers Home batches train on.

Product 4

24Observe — Observability & Security

24Observe is the founder's observability and security platform. Interns work on SIEM rule tuning, Splunk SPL query authoring, KQL detection engineering, log pipeline hardening and analyst workflow design — on real anonymised customer telemetry, not synthetic data.

Course videos

Cyber Security Course in Bangalore — Trainer Videos and Placement Stories

Networkers Home publishes trainer tutorials, lab walkthroughs and student placement stories on the @NetworkersHome YouTube channel — currently 172,000+ subscribers. Selected videos relevant to the cyber security course in Bangalore are embedded below. The full video library across all NH courses is available at /videos/.

Placement Story · 18,560 views

Abhishek From Bangalore Placed at Unisys Global Services

Abhishek from Bangalore describes his journey from fresher to a cyber security role at Unisys Global Services India after completing the Networkers Home cyber security training.

Placement Story · 8,200 views

Urvish From Ahmedabad Placed at Tribastion Technologies

Urvish from Ahmedabad describes his journey to a cyber security role at Tribastion Technologies after completing the Networkers Home cyber security course in Bangalore.

Placement Story · 14,230 views

Vaibhav From Bangalore Placed at Barracuda Networks (8+ LPA)

Vaibhav from Bangalore describes his placement at Barracuda Networks at 8+ LPA after the Networkers Home cyber security training programme.

Lab Walkthrough · 19,870 views

Rack Setup and Live Internship — Hands-On Lab Reality

Walkthrough of the Networkers Home Bangalore rack room and lab environment — what students access 24×7 through vpn.networkershome.com.

More course videos at /videos/ · subscribe to @NetworkersHome on YouTube

Placement Guarantee*

Placement Guarantee* — How Networkers Home Places Cyber Security Graduates

The Networkers Home cyber security course in Bangalore carries a Placement Guarantee* with written terms published at /placement-guarantee-terms/. The placement support continues beyond the 32-week course until each enrolled student is placed across the 800+ pan-India hiring partner network the institute has built since 2007. Most Bangalore cyber security institutes offer "placement assistance" without contractual terms; Networkers Home publishes the asterisk's terms in full because the curriculum is built around the actual hiring loops, not around the syllabus PDF.

The Placement Guarantee* is contractual on both sides. The student commits to the conditions in the left column below. Networkers Home commits to the support obligations in the right column. The placement coordinator assigned at admission tracks each student's pipeline through to placement. The 800+ hiring partner network spans IT services, security and network vendors, BFSI, product companies and global capability centres — sample partner names organised by tier appear below.

Student commitments

  • 90%+ attendance across all live sessions
  • Full 4-month internship completion with project sign-off
  • Active placement participation: CV review, mock interviews, applying to referred openings
  • Resume and LinkedIn updated to NH placement-team format
  • Certification exam attempt on at least one of CEH, PCNSE, NSE 4, AWS SCS-C02 or AZ-500

Networkers Home commitments

  • Active CV submissions across 800+ hiring partner network
  • Weekly mock interview slots with senior trainers
  • Direct referrals from alumni in target companies
  • Named placement coordinator assigned to each graduate
  • Continued placement support until placement — not a 90-day window

800+ hiring partners — sample names by tier

IT Services

Wipro · Infosys · TCS · HCL Technologies · Tech Mahindra · Cognizant · Mphasis · NTT Data · Capgemini · LTIMindtree · DXC Technology · Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Cybersec / Network Vendors

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Salary outcomes

Cyber Security Salary in Bangalore After This Course

Bangalore is India's highest-paying cybersecurity market. Entry-level cyber security salaries in Bangalore in 2026 carry a 15-25% premium versus equivalent roles in Hyderabad and Pune. The premium exists because Bangalore concentrates the R&D centres of the world's top security vendors (Cisco at Cessna Business Park, Palo Alto Networks at Bagmane Tech Park, Check Point at Manyata, CrowdStrike R&D, Rapid7 R&D), the largest Indian product companies (Flipkart, Razorpay, Walmart Labs), the densest BFSI GCC concentration (JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Standard Chartered), and the country's most active cyber security startup ecosystem.

The salary bands below are compiled from three sources: public job postings on Naukri, LinkedIn and InstaHyre across 2025 and 2026; LinkedIn profile data of Networkers Home alumni now working at the named hirers; and actual offer letters shared by graduating students with the placement team for benchmark calibration. The ranges below are not specific outcome promises — Networkers Home does not promise specific salaries to enrolled students because outcome-rate claims fall under ASCI and CCPA scrutiny for unverifiable promotional claims.

Role Experience Salary band Typical hirers
SOC L1 Analyst (entry) 0-1 yr post-programme ₹4-6 LPA Wipro, Infosys, TCS, HCL, NTT, Mphasis
Junior Cloud Security Analyst 0-1 yr post-programme ₹5-7 LPA AWS partners, Flipkart, Razorpay, Paytm
Junior Penetration Tester / Ethical Hacker 0-1 yr post-programme ₹5-8 LPA Deloitte, EY, PwC, KPMG, NotSoSecure
Information Security Analyst 1-2 yr ₹6-10 LPA Wipro, Infosys, Capgemini, Accenture, IBM
SOC L2 Analyst 2-3 yr ₹8-14 LPA Flipkart, JP Morgan, Goldman, Deutsche Bank India
Cloud Security Engineer (AWS / Azure) 2-4 yr ₹10-18 LPA Walmart Labs, Target India, Cisco India, Microsoft India
Senior Penetration Tester 3-5 yr ₹15-25 LPA Big-4 consulting, NotSoSecure, BlueAlly, Inflow
Firewall / Network Security Architect 5-7 yr ₹18-30 LPA Cisco, Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet (direct)
CISO / Head of Security 10+ yr ₹50 LPA - ₹1.5 Cr Indian product cos, BFSI, GCC captives

Salary progression follows a predictable pattern in the Bangalore cyber security market. An L1 SOC analyst at ₹4-6 LPA who attempts the SOC L2 transition with a strong SIEM portfolio (Splunk or Sentinel) typically reaches ₹8-14 LPA within 2-3 years. A junior firewall engineer at ₹5-7 LPA who clears Palo Alto PCNSE and gains 2 years of production deployment experience typically reaches ₹10-15 LPA. Cloud security engineers with AWS SCS-C02 and 3 years of multi-account architecture experience reach ₹15-25 LPA at product companies. Full Bangalore salary benchmarks by experience are published at /cybersecurity-salary-india-by-experience-2026/.

Ethical hacker salary in India — Bangalore 2026 benchmarks: an entry ethical hacker or junior penetration tester typically starts at ₹5-8 LPA. With CEH v13 plus an OSCP and 2-3 years of red-team or bug-bounty exposure, an ethical hacker in Bangalore reaches ₹12-20 LPA. Senior offensive security and red-team lead roles at Big-4 consulting and product companies reach ₹25-45 LPA. Information security analyst salaries in India track slightly lower than penetration testers at the same experience band because the role is broader (GRC, audit, policy) rather than purely technical — ₹6-10 LPA entry, ₹14-22 LPA at 4-6 years.

Eligibility

Eligibility — Who Can Enrol in the Cyber Security Course in Bangalore

The cyber security course in Bangalore at Networkers Home is open to any graduate of any discipline (B.Tech, BCA, B.Sc, B.Com, B.A, B.Com Honours, B.Pharm, MBA, M.Tech, M.Sc), final-year students of any undergraduate or postgraduate programme, and working professionals across IT and non-IT functions. No prior cybersecurity experience is required at admission — the foundation month covers networking fundamentals, Linux administration and Python scripting before any security-specific module begins. Basic English communication and the ability to commit four days per week for eight months are the only practical requirements. The institute does not screen by graduation percentage, college ranking or branch.

Right fit if the candidate is
  • • A fresh graduate (0-1 year experience) targeting the first cyber security role at ₹4-7 LPA — SOC L1, junior penetration tester or junior cloud security analyst
  • • A non-IT graduate (B.Com, B.Sc non-CS, B.A, MBA non-technical, mechanical or civil engineering background, defence or ex-paramilitary) making a structured pivot into cybersecurity
  • • A 1-3 year IT professional upgrading from helpdesk, system administration, junior networking or junior cloud roles into a security engineering track
  • • Located outside Bangalore and able to attend live-online with 24×7 lab access — approximately 40% of every batch attends online
  • • Able to commit the 8-month duration knowing that 8-week bootcamp graduates clear interview round one but get filtered in round two
Not the right fit if the candidate is
  • • Already in a security role with 3+ years of experience — a single specialised certification track (PCNSE, NSE 7, AZ-500 or AWS SCS-C02 alone) is cheaper and faster than a full 8-month bundle
  • • Looking purely for certification exam preparation — a standalone cert prep course at ₹20-50k is more efficient than the 8-month flagship
  • • Unable to commit the 8-month duration consistently — the 4-month internship has a 9-hour weekday commitment that cannot be shortened
  • • Expecting pure self-paced video instruction — this programme is live-instructor and lab-heavy by design
Campus

Why the Networkers Home Cyber Security Course in Bangalore is Located in HSR Layout

Address & access

  • Address: L-149, 5th Main Road, Sector 6, HSR Layout, Bengaluru 560102
  • Walk from: HSR BDA Complex (5 min) · HSR Layout Junction (8 min)
  • Nearest metro: Silk Board (Yellow Line, operational 2026)
  • Distance from Electronic City: ~9 km via Hosur Road and Sarjapur Outer Ring Road
  • Parking: Sector 6 internal roads (4-wheeler) · campus 2-wheeler bay
  • Contact: +91 96110 27980 · /contactus/

Why HSR Layout for the cyber security course

HSR Layout Sector 6 sits at the convergence point of Bangalore's three highest-density cybersecurity employer corridors. The Outer Ring Road corridor north of HSR carries Cisco India campus, Wipro, Infosys and most of the major IT services security teams. The Sarjapur corridor east of HSR carries Flipkart, Walmart Labs, Razorpay and the dense product-company concentration. Electronic City to the south carries Infosys, Wipro, ICICI BFSI and Biocon security teams. The Koramangala and BTM Layout cluster to the west carries Swiggy, Zomato, Razorpay and the fintech startup ecosystem.

Bangalore commute time directly affects placement outcomes. The traffic configuration on the Outer Ring Road and Hosur Road adds 30-60 minutes to each interview commute during the morning and evening peak windows. An HSR-located graduate reaches Cisco Cessna Business Park, Palo Alto Bagmane Tech Park, Manyata Tech Park, Bagmane World Technology Centre, Embassy Tech Village and most of the Sarjapur corridor in 25-45 minutes during off-peak windows. A graduate located in Whitefield, Marathahalli or KR Puram averages 60-90 minutes for the same destinations. Graduates who can accept interviews quickly without the commute cost convert offers at measurably higher rates — this is why the campus is in HSR Layout. For students outside Bangalore, the online attendance model with 24×7 vpn.networkershome.com lab access removes the geographic constraint entirely; the institute serves a pan-India audience by design.

Frequently asked questions

Cyber Security Course in Bangalore — Frequently Asked Questions

The questions Bangalore-area enrolment enquiries about the Networkers Home cyber security course most frequently ask — fee, duration, eligibility, online attendance, batch timing, certifications, trainers, internship, lab and placement.

What is the best cyber security course in Bangalore for 2026? +
Networkers Home's 8-month Cybersecurity + Cloud Bundle is the world's first AI NOC+SOC analyst programme built on real hardware. ₹1,20,000 incl. 18% GST one-time (or 8 monthly EMIs of ₹20,000). The course covers Palo Alto PAN-OS 11, Fortinet FortiGate 7.4, Check Point R82, AWS Security, Azure Sentinel, SOC tooling, ethical hacking and a new 3-month AI NOC+SOC lab block on 24Observe (Networkers Home's own AI-SOC platform) — 50 hardware-grounded incident labs across firewall, VPN, Cisco IOS, web attacks, multi-stage kill chains and AI-agent security. Includes a 4-month paid internship inside founder-owned product companies and Placement Guarantee* with 800+ pan-India hiring partners.
What is the cyber security course fee in Bangalore at Networkers Home? +
The 8-month Cybersecurity + Cloud Bundle is ₹1,20,000 inclusive of 18% GST. The default payment plan is a 6-month zero-cost credit-card EMI of ₹20,000 per month. Extended NBFC plans are available — 12 months at ~₹10,500/month, 18 months at ~₹7,400/month, 24 months at ~₹5,800/month with proportional interest. The fee bundles 12-month NHPREP.com platform access, 24×7 real-hardware lab, 4-month paid internship and Placement Guarantee*.
How long is the cyber security course in Bangalore at Networkers Home? +
The Networkers Home cyber security course in Bangalore runs for 8 months of instruction — 32 weeks of live training, 24×7 lab access and the four-month paid internship that runs from month four. Most students take 9-10 months total from enrolment to placement, with the Placement Guarantee* continuing beyond month 8 until the student is placed.
Does the cyber security course in Bangalore include placement? +
Yes — Networkers Home's 8-month flagship cyber security course carries Placement Guarantee* with written terms at /placement-guarantee-terms/. The placement support includes resume preparation, mock interviews, and live interview drives across 800+ pan-India hiring partners including Wipro, Infosys, TCS, HCL, Cognizant, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Fortinet, Akamai and Barracuda. Terms apply: 90%+ attendance, all modules plus internship complete, active placement participation. Networkers Home has placed 45,000+ engineers since 2007.
Where is the cyber security course in Bangalore located? +
Networkers Home is located at L-149, 5th Main Road, Sector 6, HSR Layout, Bengaluru 560102. The campus is in walk-in distance from HSR BDA Complex and HSR Layout Junction. Nearest metro station is Silk Board (Yellow Line, operational 2026). The campus is approximately 9 km from Electronic City via the Hosur Road and Sarjapur Outer Ring Road corridor. 24×7 lab access is also available remotely via vpn.networkershome.com for online-track students.
What is the eligibility for the cyber security course in Bangalore? +
Eligibility for the Networkers Home cyber security course in Bangalore is open to any graduate (B.Tech, BCA, B.Sc, B.Com, B.A), final-year students and working professionals. No prior cybersecurity experience is required. Non-IT graduates from B.Com, B.A, B.Sc backgrounds are explicitly welcome — the programme opens with a foundation month covering networking, Linux and Python before the security stack begins. Basic English communication and the ability to commit four days per week for eight months are the only practical requirements.
What is the cyber security salary in Bangalore after this course? +
Entry-level cyber security salaries in Bangalore 2026 — SOC L1, junior penetration tester, junior cloud security analyst — fall in the ₹4-7 LPA range. With 2-3 years of experience and a strong certification (PCNSE, OSCP, CISSP track), salaries reach ₹8-15 LPA. Specialist senior roles (firewall architect, security engineer) reach ₹15-35 LPA. Bangalore is India's highest-paying cybersecurity market because Cisco, Palo Alto, Check Point, Flipkart, Razorpay and Amazon all hire here at scale.
When does the next cyber security batch start in Bangalore? +
The next cyber security batches in Bangalore at Networkers Home start on 15 June 2026 and 6 July 2026. Both batches have limited seats — the 1 June batch is already full. Each batch runs both weekday (10am-1pm IST) and weekend (Sat-Sun) tracks so students can pick by schedule. Online attendance is available for outstation candidates. A counselling call confirms the right batch fit in 15 minutes — book at /contactus/ or +91 96110 27980.
Can I attend the cyber security course in Bangalore online from outside Bangalore? +
Yes — about 40% of every Bangalore batch attends online from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities across India and from the Gulf. Sessions are live Zoom with full interactivity (not pre-recorded video). Lab access is identical to onsite students — Kali, Burp Suite Pro, AWS production accounts, Palo Alto and Fortinet hardware via vpn.networkershome.com from anywhere with an internet connection. The 4-month internship is hybrid — three days per week in Bangalore for the first 8 weeks, then remote until completion.
What certifications does the cyber security course in Bangalore prepare students for? +
The 8-month cyber security course in Bangalore covers blueprints for: CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701), EC-Council CEH v13, Palo Alto PCNSE, Fortinet NSE 4 with partial NSE 7, Check Point CCSA and CCSE, AWS Certified Security — Specialty (SCS-C02), Microsoft Azure AZ-500, Cisco CyberOps Associate (200-201) and (ISC)² SSCP mapping. Certification exam vouchers are paid separately to the respective providers — Networkers Home does not bundle vouchers because vendor pricing changes frequently and students benefit from booking at the lowest current rate.
Who are the trainers for the cyber security course in Bangalore? +
The Networkers Home cyber security course in Bangalore is delivered by a senior trainer team holding active credentials across Palo Alto PCNSE, Fortinet NSE 7, Check Point CCSE, Cisco CCNP Security, OSCP, AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS-C02), Microsoft Azure AZ-500 and Splunk Core Certified Power User. The institute has been operating since 2007 with a 19-year continuous training track record across the Indian cyber security and networking industry. All trainers are actively practising security engineers — not full-time instructors who left field work years ago.
What does the 4-month paid internship cover? +
From month four, students join one of four founder-owned security product companies as a paid intern: QSecure (post-quantum payments security), BrowserFog (browser security and isolation), QSecNiti (security training platform) or 24Observe (observability and SIEM). The work is real customer engagement — security audits, SIEM rule tuning, vulnerability assessments, firewall hardening. A stipend offsets part of the fee. A Verified Experience Letter is issued at graduation by Networkers Home's registered IT services entity — recruiters parse this as 4 months of real cyber security work experience.
What does the Networkers Home Bangalore cyber security lab include? +
The Networkers Home Bangalore cyber security lab provides 24×7 access to real production hardware via vpn.networkershome.com or on-campus: Cisco IOS-XE and IOS-XR routers, Catalyst 9000 switches, Palo Alto PA-440 and VM-Series firewalls, FortiGate 80F appliances, Check Point R82 GAIA appliances, Cisco ASA with Firepower, and Cisco Identity Services Engine. Real AWS production accounts are provisioned for cloud security labs and real Azure tenants for AZ-500 work. No Packet Tracer. No GNS3. No EVE-NG. Real hardware, real configurations, real recovery from real misconfigurations.
Can someone from a non-IT background join the cyber security course in Bangalore? +
Yes — approximately 25% of every Networkers Home Bangalore batch comes from non-IT backgrounds: B.Com, B.A, B.Sc non-CS, MBA non-tech, mechanical and civil engineering, defence and ex-paramilitary. The 8-month programme opens with a foundation month covering networking basics, Linux and Python before the security stack begins. Typical outcomes for non-IT graduates: placement at ₹4-6 LPA in SOC L1 or junior cloud security analyst roles in months 9-12, then progression to ₹8-12 LPA at three years with certification plus experience.
Is this an ethical hacking course or an information security course? +
Both — the Networkers Home 8-month Bangalore programme is a bundled information security course with a full ethical hacking course module inside it. Months 1-4 build the information security foundation (networking, Linux, Python, firewalls, SOC operations, SIEM). Month 5 is the dedicated ethical hacking course aligned to the EC-Council CEH v13 blueprint — reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, system hacking, web application hacking, wireless hacking, cloud hacking, AI hacking and report writing using Kali, Burp Suite Pro, Metasploit and the OWASP toolchain. Students who want only the ethical hacking course can also enrol in the standalone CEH v13 Master Class — but the 8-month bundled programme is the version that carries Placement Guarantee* because hiring partners in Bangalore expect both an information security foundation and offensive security skills together, not one in isolation.
What is the average ethical hacker salary in India after this course? +
Ethical hacker salaries in India 2026 — entry: ₹5-8 LPA in Bangalore as a junior penetration tester or red-team analyst with CEH v13. 2-3 years experience plus OSCP: ₹12-20 LPA at Big-4 consulting (Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC), NotSoSecure, BlueAlly, and product company red teams. Senior ethical hacker and red-team lead roles reach ₹25-45 LPA. Bug-bounty side income from HackerOne, Bugcrowd and Synack often adds another ₹2-5 LPA on top. Bangalore is India's highest-paying ethical hacker market because Cisco, Palo Alto, Check Point, Flipkart, Razorpay, Amazon, Walmart Labs and PhonePe all run in-house red teams here.

Enrol in the Cyber Security Course in Bangalore

Eight months · ₹1,20,000 inclusive of 18% GST one-time (or 8 monthly EMIs of ₹20,000) · four-month paid internship · Placement Guarantee* across 800+ pan-India hiring partners. Next batches start 15 June 2026 and 6 July 2026. Seats are limited per batch. A 15-minute counselling call confirms the right batch fit for the candidate's background and schedule.

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16 shipping companies, one founder — students earn while they learn

Founded and operated by Vikas Swami (Dual CCIE #22239). FreeFreeCV.com is gifted to the world as a free AI resume maker. Networkers Home students from month 4 onwards rotate into paid internships across these companies — the only Indian training institute that pays you to intern inside the founder's own shipping products.